Hotel Giardino d'Europa

This was a great place to stay, especially considering the price. The hotel offers an escape from the crowds in the city centre and a high quality accommodation, including services. The room was nice and spatious, the hotel is overall very nice. Room service is very thorough and flexible - they clean from roughly 9 a.m. to 12 a.m. and respect "don't disturb" signs without skipping your room entirely (unlike in most hotels). The breakfast, although people complained about repetitivness, offers a very good variety of foods - yoghurt, bread and accessories, eggs and pastries. After 6 nights, I was still very satisfied with the choices and I appreciate that you can get it any time from 7 to 10 a.m. The neighbourhood around the hotel is very clean and without any "problem elements". Slightly scary is the underpass on the way to Cinecitta, but you shouldn't be afraid using it - the scariest thing you will find there are spiders. Very important note, the metro A line the hotel is located near has last trains running at 9 p.m. from sunday to thursday (due to a long term maintenance project; most people find out only after arriving to Rome) and the buses are a bit unreliable (they simply don't follow the schedule reported by Google maps). Nevertheless, the hotel offers a free shuttle service during cartain hours + you can take a joy ride on a e-scooter. I highly recommend taking one of these joy rides, as you can get a 3.50 euro pass on Dott for 2x30 minute rides and see the aquaducto park on the way to the centre. Good restaurants are located just a short ride from the hotel - the closest best restaurant I can recommend is Braceria La Gazza; they have a huge capacity, great pasta and awesome prices. More great restaurants and bars can be found between Subaugusta and Porta Furba metro stations, just a few minutes away from the hotel by public transport or e-scooter.

Room was exceptional, regular cleaning and restocking the bathroom supplies. Breakfast was great with kind personnel who wanted to make us additional coffee or scrambled eggs. Dinner was restaurant type of dinner, with restaurant prices. There is free bus from hotel to nearest metro station, three times in the morning and twice in the afternoon, also with option to wait for your return. On our last day we were unable to arrive to breakfast due to early flight and we got box breakfast which is great, just the food inside of the package was scarce. It should have some sandwich or something.

We stayed for one night to get our early flight from Ciampino. We arrived around 12pm the day before and they were able to give us rooms straight away. We went into Rome via taxi which took a while, as the hotel is in a strange location off the motorway. The shower was good and we had a small issue with the sink which they resolved immediately. We didn't use the restaurant in the evening, however breakfast was a relatively small offering, just a continental style breakfast. For the price I was happy enough! We were given rooms opposite each other as we requested close, which was excellent.

Food was very good. Varied evening meal menu and good choice at breakfast which was continental style. Comfortable spacious room with balcony. Pleasant helpful staff. Shuttle service to the metro to get into Rome was great.

The pool was a godsend, we spent most of the day in it as the daytime temperatures were so high. We also appreciated the airport shuttle service, it removed a major headache for us and the cost was very reasonable.